Youth Impact: Strengthening Organisational Capacities to Build Peace in Europe Erasmus Project

Project Title

Youth Impact: Strengthening Organisational Capacities to Build Peace in Europe

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy) ; Post-conflict/post-disaster rehabilitation; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Project Summary

In this project six youth organisations, all working on peace education, have worked together to research monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) practices and created an on and offline guide (guidelines) for youth organisations to embed MEL within their structures and processes. The partner organisations are the United Network of Young Peacebuilders (UNOY) based in the Netherlands and five members of the UNOY European network: EIF (Germany), CEIPES (Italy), PATRIR (Romania), SCI (Belgium) and FCV (Spain).

The over-all objective of the project is to strengthen the capacities of youth organizations working on peace education in the areas of strategic development and organizational management in order to foster quality improvements in youth work in general, and youth peace education in particular and to promote young people’s active citizenship at European level in accordance to the EU Youth Strategy 2010 – 2018.

The specific objectives of the project are:
1. To enhance the capacities of the partner organizations for strategic development by strengthening their monitoring, evaluation and learning processes;
2. To gain in-depth understanding of European youth organization’s need for and use of monitoring, evaluation and learning processes;
3. To develop functional guidelines for monitoring, evaluation and learning processes for youth organizations;

During the project, a research team composed of one person from each organisation as well as an external lead researcher have carried out organisational assessments of all the partners. The assessments have been used to create a Research Report on Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning in Six European Youth Organizations. The research report has been disseminated through the Young Peacebuilders Forum, an international multiplier event taking place in the Hague in October 2015.

On the basis of the research report, the organisational assessments, as well as the outcomes of discussions during the Young Peacebuilders Forum and within the research team, each partner has created an action plans for implementing stronger MEL processes within their own organisations. The research team has compiled guidelines ( also refered to as an online guide) on Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning for Youth Organizations. These guidelines has been disseminated widely, in particular to through multiplier events at the national level organised by five of the partner organisations.

The result of the project will be increased quality in youth work carried out by youth-led organisations across Europe, through stronger MEL processes which enable the organisations to take a more strategic approach to their non-formal education activities.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 108436 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNITED NETWORK OF YOUNG PEACEBUILDERS STICHTING & Country: NL

Project Partners

• European Intercultural Forum e. V.
• CEIPES – Centro Internazionale per la Promozione dell Educazione e lo Sviluppo
• THE ASSOCIATION OF SERVICE CIVIL INTERNATIONAL IVZW
• Fundació Catalunya Voluntària
• INSTITUTUL ROMAN PENTRU ACTIUNE, INSTRUIRE SI CERCETARE IN DOMENIUL PACII – PEACE ACTION, TRAINING & RESEARCH INST OF ROMANIA
• UTILAPU NEMZETKOZI EPITOTABOR HALOZAT EGYESULET